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'MOUTHPIEGB FOR CIGARS OR OIGARETTES. No. '499,695. Patented June 13, 1893.

& g l. a c 3 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM C. BAKER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CONRAD J. BROWN, OF SAME PLACE.

MOUTHPIECE FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,695, dated J' une 13, 1893. Application filed January S, 1893. Serial No. 459384. (No model.)

To all whom it may conern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. BAKER, of Baltimore, Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Mouthpieces for Cigars or Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to a peculiar construction of the mouth piece whereby the ci gar after its insertion into the same may be secured therein and protected against accidental removal, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the further description of the said inventio'n which follows, reference is made to -the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof and in which- Figure 1 is an exterior side view of a cigar mouth piece made in accordance with the present invention, and a cigar which is secured therein. Fig. 2 is a cross section of the mouth piece taken on the dotted line ;x-x, and Fig. 3 a similar section showing the movable parts thereof in different relative po sitions. Fig, 4 is a longitudinal section of the mouth piece. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4 except that it illustrates amodification in Construction, hereinafter described;

Referring to Figs. l to 4 inclusive, A is the mouth piece proper which is made of any suitable material, preferably meerschaum or Wood.

The cavity into which the cigar B is inserted is denoted by a.

Near the end of the mouth piece is an eX- terior annular groove b covered by a metallic sleeve C adapted to have a limited circumferential movement. To admit of this limited circumferential movement of the sleeve C independently of mouth piece, the said sleeve is provided with a slot c and the mouth piece with a headed stop pin d which passes through the said slot. The pin d also serves to prevent the sleeve C from being drawn endwise from the mouth piece.

D is a curved pointed spring wire attached to the sleeve C, and resting in the groove b. The pointed wire D passes through a hole f which leads from the groove b to the interior of the cavity a. When the sleeve C is turned so as to bring the stop pin d at one end of the slot c the point of the wire D is in alignment with the inner surface of the cavity a, as

shown in Fig. 2. But when the sleeve is turned so as to bring the stop pin d to the other end of the slot c the pointed wire is turned inward as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be understood that if a cigar is placed in the cavity of the mouth piece, and the sleeve turned as last described, the pointed wire will enter the cigar and serve to hold it against withdrawal. To remove the cigar, the sleeve is reversed in position When the pointed wire is again withdrawn from the cigar and rests entirely in the groove band the connecting hole f.

In Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive the sleeve C rests on the material of the mouth piece, but in Fig. 5 the portion of the mouth piece covered by the sleeve C is protected against wear by a metallic ring E having an annular depression corresponding with the groove b. This latter construction is somewhat more expensive, but where the mouth piece is 'made of soft material such as meerschaum or Wood, the wear of the same caused by the movement of the sleeve is prevented, and is to be preferred in high grades of mouth pieces.

I claim as my invention-- 1. In a mouth piece for a cigar, a sleeve on the said mouth piece having a limited circnmferential movement, combined with a curved securing wire attached thereto and which in the movement of the said sleeve is forced into the cavity for the said cigar, or withdrawn therefrom, substantially as specified.

2. A month piece for a cigar, having an exterior annular groove, and a hole leading from the annular groove to the interior of the mouth piece combined with a circumferentially moving sleeve situated over the said groove, and a curved wire situated in the said annular groove one end of which is attached to the said sleeve and the other end adapted to pass through the said hole, whereby in the circumferential movement of the said sleeve the free end of the wire is forced into a cigar placed in the mouth piece, substantially as, and for 'the purpose specified.

WILLIAM C. BAKER.

Witnesses:

WM. T. HOWARD, DANL. FISHER. 

